House of Brandenburg History, Potsdam

The House of Brandenburg-Prussian History is the central hub for Brandenburg culture and history. In 2020, the entire listed building was brought up to the latest technical standards, the entrance area was redesigned and fitted with a digital visitor information system.

Finally, in May 2022, the new “Brandenburg. Exhibition”, which brings 1,000 years of history to life in one hour - from the beginning in the 10th century to the heydey of Prussia as a great power in Europe to the Weimar Republic, the 3rd Reich and the GDR to the present.

In order to be able to impressively present the many original objects in the exhibition, the optimal reproduction of very different materials and surfaces became the focus of the lighting design. Lighting for museums places the highest demands on the lighting tools used. The protection of paintings, the colour rendering index as well as the atmosphere and quality of stay in exhibition rooms determine whether works of art can unfold their full effect and curatorial concepts are received by visitors.

That is why the exceptionally high colour rendering index and colour fidelity of InstaLighting’s “Stratas” track spotlights won over the lighting designers at Büro Rosenspiess in Berlin. A total of 120 Stratas luminaires featuring XICATO LED modules, various beam angles and optical attachments now illuminate 228 objects, such as the Gröben church register (from 1578), historical photographs of cloud formations from 1896, or the red Soviet star that the Red Army affixed to Küstrin Fortress in 1945.